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Method Quotes by John Dewey
- I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
- The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into…
- That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
- I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.
- Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can…
- No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but…
- An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
- The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods…
- Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
- Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for…
- There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and…
More Method Quotes
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality… — Camille Paglia
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla
- In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein
- The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is… — Karl Pearson